Apart from individual technical and tactical skills, practicing different systems of cooperation may be useful to structure the offense play and force the defense to move in order to score a goal.This textbook gives detailed step-by-step descriptions of initial actions and possible options for continuous playing against different defense systems. The playing variants aim at creating situations through team play in which the players are able to eventually shoot at the goal. If this is not possible because the defense players are very well-positioned, there are various continuous playing and subsequent shooting options explained in this book.The first chapter initially deals with simple cooperations such as crossings, parallel piston movements, and interactions with the pivot the essential building blocks for many of the subsequent 6-on-6 playing variants. In the other chapters, we will present examples of how to overcome passive and active defense cooperations.A lot of the opening playing variants can be modified and used against other defense systems as well. It would be ideal, however, if the players practiced their decision-making processes in such a way that they are capable to react to changing situations and to adapt their playing creatively. This way, playing variants could be modified and extended spontaneously and lead to new shooting options over and over.Part E deals with fast break playing options and playing options following a fast throw-off. The two last chapters focus on offense play against outnumbered defense systems, whereas the main focus will be on playing with an additional field player (goalkeeper substitution) and playing a subsequent attack in numerical superiority with a seventh field player following a time penalty against the defending team.Included contents:Part A: Cooperation in small groupsPart B: Opening playing variants and playing concepts against a 6-0 defense systemPart C: Opening playing variants against a 5-1 or 3-2-1 defense systemPart D: Opening playing variants against a 4-2 defense systemPart E: Fast throw-off and second-wave fast breakPart F: Goalkeeper substitution: Playing 7-on-6 or 6-on-6 in outnumbered situationsPart G: Playing against an outnumbered defense of 5 players

JÖRG MADINGERSince July 2012: A-License, DHBSince February 2011: Handball club trainings, coaching (training and competitive areas)November 2011: Foundation of the Handball Specialist Publishing Company (Handball Fachverlag) (handall-uebungen.de, Handball Practice and Special Handball Practice)May 2009: Foundation of the handball online platform handball-uebungen.de2008-2010: Youth coordinator and youth coach, SG Leutershausen (Germany)Since 2006: B-LicenseEditors noteIn 1995, a friend convinced me to join him in coaching a handball youth team (male, under 13 years of age).This was the beginning of my career as a team handball coach. Ever since I enjoyed working as a coach and had high requirements concerning my exercises. Soon, the standard pool of exercises wasnt enough for me anymore and I started to modify and develop drills myself.Today, I coach a broad range of youth and adult teams with different performance levels and adjust my training units to the individual needs of the teams.A few years ago, I started selling my exercises and drills online at handball-uebungen.de. Since, in handball training, there is a tendency towards a general athletic training that focuses on coordination work especially in the training of youth teams , a large number of my games and exercises can be applied to other sports as well.Get inspired by the various game concepts, be creative, and rely on your own experiences!Yours sincerely,Jörg Madinger